All of the following factors nourished an American conviction that California must become part of the United States EXCEPT the
A) favorable position of California for the China trade.
B) ethos of Manifest Destiny.
C) desire of newcomers to blend into California society.
D) suspicion that other nations had designs on the region.
Answer: C
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a. showing that inalienable human rights are simply a historically based creation of the human mind. b. concluding that a society cannot function as liberals assumed because people are not rational. c. arguing that the most basic ideas of human rights and popular sovereignty are simply tools cynically used by elites. d. offering people more emotion, irrational ideologies. e. all of the above
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a. Most densely populated b. Poorest c. Youngest (by population) d. Richest e. None of these choices
China's first treaty with a European state was the one in 1689 with
a. Portugal b. England c. Holland d. Russia e. France
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a. northern states b. western territories c. urban centers d. southern states